Obama leads in the delegate count -- 1,648 to 1,504, CNN estimates -- as well as the popular vote and the number of states won so far this primary season.
If Clinton is victorious, it would allow her to pick up a majority of the 158 delegates at stake in Pennsylvania make a small dent in Obama's lead, and more. Call races for yourself and see how delegates add up »
"If she wins Pennsylvania by a hefty margin, she can prove she can win the traditional Democratic constituencies needed to win the election, mostly white working-class voters," said Gloria Borger, a CNN senior political analyst.
So, in other words, if she wins the folks that will most likely vote for the Democratic Nominee in November as long as they weren't caught eating babies ...
And here I thought that the whole point was that having a nominee like Obama changes the electoral map for the Democratic Party. The last couple of elections should give the leadership (and I use that term loosely) of the Democratic Party a clue that the traditional Democratic constituencies just aren't enough anymore.
In order for the party to have any hope of breaking the cycle of allowing wedge issues to be used by the Republicans to get to 50%+1 electoral votes they have to start looking beyond "traditional Democratic constituencies" and look towards a candidate that can work to get new folks into party. We need to find those disenchanted Republicans and turn both they and a goodly number of independents into real honest to god members of the Democratic party. One election wont do it... but 8 years might. I just don't see Clinton doing that for the party.
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